For those who had problems with pharo on windows and github based repositories, I built a windows vm with support for long paths:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8yEahnuIem2bmxwdzJuUXFxVGM/view?usp=sharing For browsing directories with large paths (FileList or Inspect), you may need one additional change in the image (But I am not really sure about that) : DiskStore>>initialize super initialize. maxFileNameLength := Smalltalk vm maxFilenameLength ifNil: [ 32767 ]. please test and give feedback. This wasn't as easy as I thought, and I had to make some more changes for the file permissions (the stat-functions don't work for files with long paths). Please test other file/folder operations. nicolai